Our allies are silent

When it comes to being Jewish at work, I don’t talk about it because I work with a primarily minority population. And even though as a Jew, I am in a minority population, my clients and colleagues would not recognize being white and Jewish as having any kind of minority status.

I think that there’s a component of it where they would see my background as having come from privilege — even though I didn’t grow up privileged. I wouldn’t bring up being Jewish or what’s happening in Israel because I have seen the reaction since October 7th from other communities that the Jewish community has supported over the last 60 years — and the reaction has been exclusionary instead of recognizing a reciprocal attitude of allyship.